The project explores the state of liminality - a transitional condition between the past and the present, when the previous coordinate system has already been lost, while a new one has not yet formed. The starting point of the work is the author’s personal experience connected with a forced relocation and the process of adapting to a new urban and cultural environment. At the same time, this state of “in between” is considered not only as an individual experience but also as a universal structure of transition that accompanies processes of migration, adaptation, and the transformation of identity.
The photographs for the project were taken in the district of New Belgrade, a modernist urban experiment of the second half of the twentieth century. The architecture of the area is built on principles of repetition and modularity: rhythms of windows, arches, passages, and staircases create endless variations of similar forms. Observing these recurring elements becomes a way of capturing a state of disorientation and seeking points of reference in a new space.
The installation is assembled from photographs according to the principle of a domino game. The images connect to one another through visual correspondences: lines, shapes, architectural rhythms. Following the rules of domino, the photographs form a chain of possible transitions, creating a structure that resembles a labyrinth. Within this system, each element simultaneously completes the previous move and opens the next one.
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The labyrinth here functions not as a space of loss, but as a model of movement where the search for a single correct exit is less important than the process of navigation itself. The work proposes to view the transitional state not only as an experience of disorientation, but also as an opportunity to develop one’s own way of moving: from disorientation toward observation and the construction of a new trajectory.